Sites for workshops and mobile mechanics on both banks of the Murray, from Lavington and Thurgoona to West Wodonga, Bandiana and Baranduda. A Border driver might need a NSW pink slip, a Victorian roadworthy, a logbook service or a check before the alpine run, and your site should say which of those you can do and on which side.
Half your customers drive NSW-registered cars and half drive Victorian ones, and the paperwork each needs is different. The quickest way to lose a booking is a site that leaves a driver unsure whether you can do the inspection their rego notice asks for.
An Albury station authorised by Transport for NSW does safety checks for NSW rego renewals. A Wodonga workshop holding a Licensed Vehicle Tester licence issues Victorian roadworthy certificates for sales and re-registration. They aren't interchangeable, so put a short line near the top of the page: which one you do, for which vehicles, and where you send drivers who need the other.
Transport for NSW only accepts an interstate inspection report when the vehicle is more than 50 kilometres from the NSW border. A NSW-registered car garaged in Wodonga, Baranduda or Barnawartha still needs its safety check from a NSW station. If you're an Albury AIS station, a line for Victorian-side residents with NSW plates is worth having.
NSW guidance says any licensed repairer can do a scheduled service as long as it follows the manufacturer's standards. Owners of newer cars in Thurgoona's and Leneva's new estates don't always know that. A logbook page that names the makes you see most, says you stamp the book and explains how warranty fits in answers that before they ring a dealership.
Albury-Wodonga sits on the Hume between Sydney and Melbourne, and Wodonga's LOGIC hub and more than 20 transport companies are based around the two cities. If you service utes, vans or light trucks for local businesses, set out what an account includes: booking priority, monthly invoicing, service reminders and whether you'll collect vehicles from the yard.
Every vehicle entering a Victorian alpine resort has to carry snow chains during the declared snow season, and Falls Creek tells drivers to check their owner's manual for chain clearance. If you do pre-trip checks, sell or fit chains, or look at brakes and cooling before a mountain drive, a winter section from June catches drivers planning the trip.
Every day from 25 to 31 January 2026 passed 40 degrees in the Twin Cities, peaking at 45.1 on the 28th. Radiators, fans and cabin air-con get a hard time in a week like that. If you regas and repair car air-con, list it with your refrigerant handling licence and say how soon you can fit a car in during a heatwave.
Lavington, Glenroy, North Albury and Thurgoona under NSW; West Wodonga, Killara, Bandiana and Leneva under Victoria; then Jindera, Bonegilla or Ebden if you go that far. Grouped by state, the list tells a driver both how close you are and which inspection you can offer them.
The state rules in brief. An Albury workshop needs a NSW motor vehicle repairer licence from NSW Fair Trading, anyone doing the repair work needs a tradesperson certificate, and the premises sign must show the licensee's name and licence number; the full detail is on our Sydney mechanics page. Victoria has no general repairer licence, so a Wodonga workshop's key credential is usually a Licensed Vehicle Tester licence for roadworthies, and a Victorian roadworthy is current for 30 days. Our Melbourne mechanics page covers that side, along with VACC membership. On your site, each credential goes next to its state, in the footer and on the inspection page.
Crossing the river with your tools. NSW says a repairer licence is needed by anyone who runs a motor vehicle repair business in NSW, mobile repairers included. A Wodonga mobile mechanic who takes jobs in Lavington or East Albury therefore can't simply list those suburbs and hope for the best: confirm with NSW Fair Trading what applies to your business first, then we'll add the suburbs with whatever licence details they confirm. Inspections cross only one way as well, because of the 50-kilometre rule for NSW safety checks.
Where the new customers are coming from. At the 2021 census Albury's urban area had 53,677 residents and Wodonga 37,839, close to 98,000 between them. Growth is concentrated at the edges. AlburyCity counted more than 11,000 people in Thurgoona-Wirlinga in 2021, adding about 500 a year, and expects around 50,000 there by 2070. Across the river, Wodonga's Leneva-Baranduda precinct is planned for up to 6,037 homes and about 15,395 residents over 20 to 30 years. Families moving into those estates are looking for a mechanic they haven't used before, and the suburbs near your workshop belong on the site.
Write-offs and the Victorian VIV step. A repairable write-off on Victorian rego has to pass a Vehicle Identity Validation inspection before it can get a roadworthy. VACC's 2026 policy blueprint counted just 10 approved VIV businesses in October 2025, and the three outside metropolitan Melbourne were in Geelong, Kangaroo Flat and Tyabb, so the nearest is a long drive from Wodonga. On the NSW side, a written-off vehicle approved for re-registration needs a blue slip instead. If you repair write-offs, a page setting out each state's order of steps saves a lot of phone calls. Panel and front-end work after animal strikes is part of the same picture on the Hume: RACV's kangaroo-claim figures put Benalla, down the highway towards Melbourne, fourth among Victorian towns with 226 claims from January 2021 to June 2026.
How we'd work with you. We're an Adelaide team and work with Border businesses by phone and email; none of our clients so far is a mechanic, and none is in Albury-Wodonga. If you're a member of the MTA NSW or VACC, we can show it beside your licence details. You send your services, licence and tester numbers, the suburbs you cover and a few phone photos of the bays, we send back a draft link, and you pay once you've approved it.
We haven't built for a mechanic yet. These two sites show the pieces a Border workshop would use: separate area pages that can keep NSW and Victorian details apart, and a compact one-page layout for a mobile mechanic.
A licensed Adelaide builder whose 30-page site has seven service pages, seven service-area pages and a seven-step quote form. For a workshop, the same structure gives Albury and Wodonga a page each, and a step-by-step form can ask for rego state, vehicle, kilometres and the job before you ring back.
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A Queensland plumber and gas fitter with a single-page site: a six-service overview, a 13-photo gallery that swipes on mobile, testimonials, a protected contact form and tap-to-call. A mobile mechanic working both sides of the river could start with the same layout.
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“They were very helpful and envisioned exactly what I was wanting for my website. They created the site very promptly and cost efficient.”
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$399
One page with your services, your NSW licence or LVT details marked by state, suburbs on each side of the river, opening hours, a booking request form and tap-to-call.
Our pick for a Border workshop
$899
A home page, an inspections page explaining pink slips or roadworthies (and the 50-kilometre rule), and a logbook and fleet servicing page, each with a request form.
$1,499
Separate pages for inspections, logbook servicing, fleet accounts, air-con and cooling, write-off repairs, pre-trip and snow-chain checks, tyres and brakes, plus a suburbs-we-cover page.
Give each state two or three sentences and keep them side by side. Most NSW light vehicles more than five years old need a safety check from an authorised station for rego renewal, valid for six months. Victorian cars need a roadworthy from a Licensed Vehicle Tester when they're sold or re-registered, current for 30 days. Then say which of the two you do.
Not from Wodonga. Transport for NSW only accepts an interstate inspection report when the vehicle is more than 50 kilometres from the NSW border, so these drivers need a NSW authorised station. If you're one in Albury, a short note on your inspections page tells them they can come to you.
If you'd like more of that work, yes. With a freight hub at LOGIC and plenty of transport companies on the Hume, a page that says which vehicles you take, how invoicing works and whether you'll collect from the yard gives a fleet manager something to forward to the boss.
A request form can collect the rego, state, vehicle, kilometres and the day that suits, and you confirm by phone or text. If your workshop software has online booking, a Book button can open it. We can also build a booking calendar with online payment into the site, quoted separately once we know how you'd like it to work.
Start with your street address and suburb, then list the towns your customers come from with a rough drive time from each. If you're mobile, say which days you head out. We set it out as plain text rather than a map image, so it reads well on a phone and search engines can read it too.
By phone and email. Our team is at Ste 3/110 Hutt St in Adelaide; we work with businesses Australia-wide, and our current clients are in SA, NSW, VIC and QLD. You send your words, licence details and photos, we build the draft, you ask for changes, and you pay once you approve it. We reply within 24 hours.
Tell us which side of the river you're on, whether you do pink slips or roadworthies, and the work you'd like more of: logbook services, fleet accounts, air-con or write-off repairs. We'll send a price, build the draft, and you owe nothing until you approve it.
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